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Ahead of the release of his film Gretel & Hansel, news has come via Deadline that Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House) has already signed on for his next film, the possession horror Incident at Fort Bragg, from Lionsgate. . Perkins will both write and direct the film inspired by the true story of the “renowned writer and Irish Catholic priest Malachi Martin, who was brought in by the U.S. government to perform a sanctioned exorcism on a young soldier at the famed Army base.” The latest version of the script is from 2019’s Pet Sematary writer Jeff Buhler edit from a previous draft by Evan Turner and Harrison Query, who sold the idea to Lionsgate. Gretel & Hansel is set long ago in a distant fairytale countryside, where a young girl (Sophia Lillis, It) leads her little brother (Sammy Leakey) into a dark wood in desperate search of food and
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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT AND IMAGES ! Three of the most recognized characters from classic horror films are Leatherface, Buffalo Bill and Norman Bates. All three are based on the true story of one killer, Ed Gein. Of course, several other films and series have taken inspiration from the Gein story, including Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, and “Bloody Face” from American Horror Story. He also had several films made in his own name. But how much do you really know about Gein? Let me fill you in. Edward Theodore Gein, born August 27, 1906, was a sheltered boy overly attached to his abusive mother. His over-religious mother, Augusta, was determined to keep Gein and his brother isolated as much as possible, believing there was evil everywhere you turned in the world. She was so obsessed with sin that she once poured boiling water over Gein’s privates when she caught him touching himself. Gein’s father, a
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Ahead of the release of his film Gretel & Hansel, news has come via Deadline that Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House) has already signed on for his next film, the possession horror Incident at Fort Bragg, from Lionsgate. . Perkins will both write and direct the film inspired by the true story of the “renowned writer and Irish Catholic priest Malachi Martin, who was brought in by the U.S. government to perform a sanctioned exorcism on a young soldier at the famed Army base.” The latest version of the script is from 2019’s Pet Sematary writer Jeff Buhler edit from a previous draft by Evan Turner and Harrison Query, who sold the idea to Lionsgate. Gretel & Hansel is set long ago in a distant fairytale countryside, where a young girl (Sophia Lillis, It) leads her little brother (Sammy Leakey) into a dark wood in desperate search of food and
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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT AND IMAGES ! Three of the most recognized characters from classic horror films are Leatherface, Buffalo Bill and Norman Bates. All three are based on the true story of one killer, Ed Gein. Of course, several other films and series have taken inspiration from the Gein story, including Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, and “Bloody Face” from American Horror Story. He also had several films made in his own name. But how much do you really know about Gein? Let me fill you in. Edward Theodore Gein, born August 27, 1906, was a sheltered boy overly attached to his abusive mother. His over-religious mother, Augusta, was determined to keep Gein and his brother isolated as much as possible, believing there was evil everywhere you turned in the world. She was so obsessed with sin that she once poured boiling water over Gein’s privates when she caught him touching himself. Gein’s father, a
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